Eva Frapiccini /

Museo Caneira | la fisica del possibile

(Museum Caneira | the physics of the possible)

[26 lockets with photographs, a video, a series of letters, diaries, notes and scientific journals]

For her first solo show in a private gallery Frapiccini worked closely with the curator Elisa Tosoni, creating a fictional character: the scientist Aleksander Prus Caneira. The exhibition turning the private gallery into a museum through the commissioning and collaboration with the Caneira Foundation (again fictional) - was in itself a fictional operation. The aim was to legitimise the scientist' research and his collection of specimens - all created by Frapiccini herself - in order to question contemporary knowledge production systems, and the role institutions like museums play in such processes.